Remove People From Travel Photos with Gemini & Drive

Remove People From Travel Photos with Gemini & Google Drive (n8n Workflow)

Upload your travel photos and let Google Gemini detect real people, remove them using AI image editing, and deliver clean results—preview thumbnails included—via Google Drive. If you prefer, you can also keep selected people and remove only the rest.

What this workflow does

• Accepts photo uploads through an n8n Form trigger, along with a mode/language selection.
• Detects real people per photo by analyzing each image with Google Gemini.
• Keeps originals when no people are found, skipping image editing to preserve the original upload.
• Removes all people (optional): if “Remove all people” is selected, Gemini performs image editing to remove every detected real person.
• Supports “keep selected people”: if “Keep selected people” is selected, the workflow uploads preview images to Google Drive, displays a second form for selecting which people to keep per photo, then edits each image to remove only unselected people.
• Returns results in a results gallery with preview thumbnails and download links.
• Maintains order & cleanup: restores the original upload order, shares final files publicly, and deletes temporary files after 24 hours.

Use cases

• Clean up family/travel photos for sharing online without including unwanted people.
• Create “people-free” destination shots for SaaS marketing or travel blogs.
• Remove by-choice subjects (e.g., keep only selected friends) using Gemini-powered selection.
• Automate privacy-safe photo delivery using n8n, Gemini, and Google Drive.

Technical details

• Google Gemini (Google PaLM): image analysis (people detection) and image editing (person removal).
• Google Drive OAuth2: store temporary previews and final delivery files in a chosen Drive/folder.
• n8n nodes used: Form, if, set, code, merge, wait.